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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 14
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Desire spiritual gifts—Tongues and prophecy compared—Prophecy is the greater gift—‘Ye may all prophesy’—‘Covet to prophesy.’
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/1a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR Pursue, Follow eagerly, earnestly."><span class='smallcaps'>Follow</span></a> after charity, and desire spiritual <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Gifts of."><i>gifts</i></a>, but rather that ye may prophesy.
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For he that speaketh in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/2a" mark="a" type="L" title="JST 1 Cor. 14: 2  . . .  another tongue  . . .; (Note: JST uses ‘another’ in place of ‘an unknown’ in every instance in v. 4, 13, 14, 19, 27.).">an</a> <i>unknown</i> tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth <i>him;</i> howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
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But he that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prophecy.">prophesieth</a> speaketh unto men <i>to</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Edification.">edification</a>, and exhortation, and comfort.
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He that speaketh in an <i>unknown</i> tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
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I <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR wish.">would</a> that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Prophecy.">prophesied</a>: for greater <i>is</i> he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
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Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR unless.">except</a> I shall speak to you either by <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Revelation.">revelation</a>, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
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And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
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For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
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So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken?  for ye shall speak into the air.
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There are, it may be, so many kinds of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Revelation.">voices</a> in the world, and none of them <i>is</i> without signification.
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Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh <i>shall be</i> a barbarian unto me.
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Even so ye, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/12a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR since.">forasmuch</a> as ye are zealous of spiritual <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 46: 10."><i>gifts</i></a>, seek that ye may excel to the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/14/12c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Edification.">edifying</a> of the church.
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Wherefore let him that speaketh in an <i>unknown</i> tongue pray that he may interpret.
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For if I pray in an <i>unknown</i> tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR mind.">understanding</a> is unfruitful.
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What is it then?  I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
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Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
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For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
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I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
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Yet in the church I had rather <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Language.">speak</a> five words with my understanding, that <i>by my voice</i> I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an <i>unknown</i> tongue.
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Brethren, be not <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 18: 3 (1-6); Eph. 4: 14.">children</a> in <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Understanding.">understanding</a>: howbeit in <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/14/20c" mark="c" type="R" title="GR wickedness, depravity; TG Malice.">malice</a> be ye children, but in <sup>d</sup><a href="1_cor/14/20d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Education.">understanding</a> be men.
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In the law it is written, With <i>men of</i> other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/21a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR listen to, heed.">hear</a> me, saith the Lord.
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Wherefore <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 2: 11.">tongues</a> are for a <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Signs.">sign</a>, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/14/22c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Prophecy.">prophesying</a> <i>serveth</i> not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
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If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in <i>those that are</i> unlearned, or <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 2: 13 (12-13).">unbelievers</a>, will they not say that ye are mad?
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But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or <i>one</i> unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
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And thus are the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 4: 12 (12-13).">secrets</a> of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on <i>his</i> face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
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How is it then, brethren?  when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation.  Let all things be done unto <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 12: 19; D&C 50: 23.">edifying</a>.
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If any man speak in an <i>unknown</i> tongue, <i>let it be</i> by two, or at the most <i>by</i> three, and <i>that</i> by course; and let one interpret.
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But if there be no interpreter, let him keep <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Silence.">silence</a> in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
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Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
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If <i>any thing</i> be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
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For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
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And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
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For God is not <i>the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 11: 16 (16-19).">author</a></i> of <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/33b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eph. 4: 5 (3-6), 13; D&C 1: 30.">confusion</a>, but of <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/14/33c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Peace; TG Peace of God.">peace</a>, as in all <sup>d</sup><a href="1_cor/14/33d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Church.">churches</a> of the <sup>e</sup><a href="1_cor/14/33e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Saints.">saints</a>.
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Let your <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/34a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Woman.">women</a> keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/14/34b" mark="b" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 14: 34  . . .  rule  . . .">speak</a>; but <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/14/34c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR to be submissive."><i>they</i></a> are commanded to be under <sup>d</sup><a href="1_cor/14/34d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">obedience</a>, as also saith the law.
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And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/35a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 14: 35  . . .  rule in the church.">speak</a> in the church.
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What?  came the word of God out from you?  or came it unto you only?
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If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
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But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
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Wherefore, brethren, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/39a" mark="a" type="F" title="IE be eager, zealous; TG Covetousness.">covet</a> to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
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Let all things be done decently and in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/14/40a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Order.">order</a>.
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